WITH dozens of alcohol-fuelled crimes to her name by the age of 20, Jodi Offord knows today she is on course to self-destruct.Ashamed of what people think of her, she wrote a letter to be read out during the latest in a long line of court appearances telling how she is desperate to lead a normal life.

WITH dozens of alcohol-fuelled crimes to her name by the age of 20, Jodi Offord knows today she is on course to self-destruct.

Ashamed of what people think of her, she wrote a letter to be read out during the latest in a long line of court appearances telling how she is desperate to lead a normal life.

Offord was brought up from the cells at South East Suffolk Magistrates' Court on her 20th birthday. In total she has committed more than 50 offences in her short life.

She admitted seven charges which took place over the last seven months and included three counts of criminal damage, two charges of thefts from shops, being drunk and disorderly and possession of cannabis.

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